RE: [PATCH V3 1/7] firmware: imx: Add stubs for !CONFIG_IMX_SCU case

From: Anson Huang
Date: Mon Mar 09 2020 - 09:37:14 EST




> Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/7] firmware: imx: Add stubs for !CONFIG_IMX_SCU
> case
>
> On 3/9/20 4:06 AM, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > On 09/03/2020 08:38:14+0800, Anson Huang wrote:
> >> Add stubs for those i.MX SCU APIs to make those modules depending on
> >> IMX_SCU can pass build when COMPILE_TEST is enabled.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Anson Huang <Anson.Huang@xxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> Changes since V2:
> >> - return error for stubs.
> >
> > I'm not sure why you are sending v3 with the stubs as we determined
> > that
> > 2/7 is enough to compile all the drivers with COMPILE_TEST.
> >
> >
> 2/7 alone is not sufficient. With only 2/7, one can explicitly configure
> IMX_SCU=n, COMPILE_TEST=y, and get lots of compile failures. Granted, one
> should not do that, but 0day does (I don't know if that is the result of
> RANDCONFIG), and I am not looking forward having to deal with the fallout.

So the V3 patch series looks better, adding stubs can cover various corner cases.

Anson